Baobab Tree in Senegal (copyright Axel)

• Nobel Peace Prize 2004:  Trees for Democracy (Dec 2004)
• Baobab Trees Dec 2007

     Videos about African and Madagascar Forests 

External Links

Africa:  Trees

• Ethiopian Tree Ring Laboratory http://geography.swan.ac.uk/treering/etrl/index.htm 
• Baobab Trees:  Africa's Oldest Inhabitants?
  http://www.wildwatch.com/resources/plants/baobab.asp 
• Pictures of Trees:  Silent Valley Game Ranch, South Africa
  http://www.bushveld.co.za/pictures-trees.htm 
• African Trees  http://www.africantrees.com/ 
• African Indigenous Forests http://www.wildlifesafari.info/forest_habitat.htm 
• Boerbean Trees http://www.wildwatch.com/resources/plants/boerbean.asp 
• AfroTropic Biome Regions http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/profiles/terrestrial_at.html 

Africa: Old Growth

• Goodbye To West Africa's Rainforests - Jan 2006
  http://news.mongabay.com/2006/0122-forests.html
• Namibia Forests
  http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/006/J0628E/J0628E58.htm
• Spirit Groves in Africa
  http://www.taos-telecommunity.org/epow/EPOW-Archive/archive_2004/EPOW-040322.htm 
• Study of Land-Use and Deforestation In Central African Tropical Forest Using High Resolution SAR Satellite Imagery 
  http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/centralafrica/africa_proposal.html
• Farm Africa's 20th Anniversary Publication
  http://www.farmafrica.org.uk/20th_forest.cfm
• Greenpeace Africa Forest Reports
  http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/forests/forest-reports/africa-forest-reports
• Congo Basin
  http://www.worldwildlife.org/bsp/publications/africa/127/congo_08.html
• Global Forest Watch:  Africa Initiatives
  http://www.globalforestwatch.org/english/centralafrica/index.htm
• Tropical Forest Mapping Project - Africa
  http://www-radar.jpl.nasa.gov/africamap/proj_prp.htm

Madagascar Forest

• About Madagascar:  Forest Regions  http://www.air-mad.com/index.html 
• The Wilds of Madagascar http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/madagascar/ 
• Deforestation in Madagascar http://www.american.edu/TED/MADAGAS.HTM 
• Preserving Madagascar's Northeast Forests
  http://www.celb.org/xp/CELB/programs/climate/conservation_carbon_makira.xml 
• Madagascar Forest Reserve Tours
  http://www.rainbowtours.co.uk/countries/madagascar/topics/itineraries/madagascar-forest-reserves.shtml 
• Forest Types in Madagascar http://www.wildmadagascar.org/overview/forest_types.html 
• Lemures and teh Forests of Madagascar
  http://www.earthwatch.org/site/pp2.asp?c=dsJSK6PFJnH&b=1147611 
• Madagascar's Unique Forest Under Threat
  http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1544101,00.html 
• Sacred Forests http://www.panda.org/news_facts/newsroom/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=7603 
• Sacred Sites and Spiny Forests
  http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/africa/where/madagascar/news/index.cfm?uNewsID=8503 

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